Seeks Music

15/11/2020

Over the last couple of years a number of DJs from the Seeks Music roster have enjoyed djing at ‘Benfest’ which started out as a birthday celebration, and has turned into a regular mini-festival thing.

This second part moves into cosmic disco and indie house territory with plenty of indie bass lines and soaring cosmic arpeggio melodies from the likes of James Rod and Tulioxi and then a latter half of more techie deep and dreamy house from the likes of Sebastien Leger and Guy Ge**er.

Welcome to the second instalment of our virtual Benfest series and the second part of Chris’ house mix, the first part of which we posted last month (https://www.mixcloud.com/seeksmusic/seeksbeats-benfest-house-mix-part-one/) This second part moves into cosmic disco and indie house territory with ...

15/08/2020

Over the last couple of years a number of DJs from the seeks music roster have enjoyed djing at ‘Benfest’ which started out as 40th birthday celebration (can you guess his name?), but continued last year and was planned again this summer at a brand new venue - alas along with the rest of the festival calendar, it had to be postponed until 2021.

However the Benfest organisers decided to deliver a virtual benfest instead on the weekend it was meant to be, which included a number of dj sets delivered via mixcloud live. Over the next few weeks we’ll post some of those mixes on here.

We start out with a regular contributor to our seeksbeats show, chris bassett who delivered an extensive largely house and techno set from saturday night through to the wee small hours of sunday morning. Here we have featured the opening hour and quarter of that set which started fairly funky, but also took in plenty of dreamy deep house and cosmic disco with the odd quirky curveball thrown in here and there.

Hope you enjoy and if you do favourite and share the mix with others…

https://www.mixcloud.com/seeksmusic/seeksbeats-benfest-house-mix-part-one/

28/06/2020

Lovely Sunday Morning Listening

Writer Ian Preece leads us on a journey from Chicago to the South, as an accompaniment to his new book "Listening To The Wind". features country blues, African blues, Blues blues, modern day Chicago blues and astral jazz, plaintive roots and dub, hip-hop and organ grooves – and part soundtrack to ...

16/05/2020

We’re excited to tell you that Seeks DJ, Ian Preece’s book is out now!
A love letter to independent record labels carving their path through the 21st century.
Check it :

https://omnibuspress.com/products/listening-to-the-wind-encounters-with-21st-century-independent-record-labels

By Ian Preece If there’s a cultural artefact capable of withstanding the vagaries and fickleness of the digital age as well as the printed book, it’s the vinyl record . . . In Listening to the Wind, Ian Preece sets out on an international road trip to capture the essence of life for independent ...

10/10/2019

Two years down the line, after delivering his magnum opus, Listening to the Wind, to the publisher Omnibus in a sports bag, Third Light Home returns with the soundtrack to part two of the book: independent labels of the UK, featuring tracks from Clay Pipe, Touch, Heavenly, Rivertones, Second Language, Arc Light Editions, Pressure Sounds, Injzaero and Zube records (among others).

From Arthur Russell to Joe Higgs, Snow Palms to Mark Lanegan, Claire M. Singer to Vic Mars; experimental ambient electronica, dub, jazz, folk, organ workouts and a few Silver Jews tunes to hopefully lift any autumnal blues.

Two years down the line, after delivering his magnum opus, Listening to the Wind, to the publisher Omnibus in a sports bag, Third Light Home returns with the soundtrack to part two of the book: independent labels of the UK, featuring tracks from Clay Pipe, Touch, Heavenly, Rivertones, Second Languag...

19/05/2019

Incooommmminggh!
An off the wall mix for fans of Deep, Leftfield, Tech and Spacey Houses.

This month Chris has gone for what he is calling a ‘deep and spacey’ mix - lots of tunes from the quirkier side of dance music, with tags such as “trippy”, “cosmic” and “strange” to the fore. Starting off with some typically off-kilter dreaminess from Sebastien Leger, a middle eight ...

23/03/2019

This looks great. Long time Seeks contributor Kam Bhogal's documentary on the life of Charles Stepney. Tuesday, 1pm Here: https://worldwidefm.net/

20/08/2018

Thanks Green Man Festival it was special.

02/08/2018

The veritable queen of eclectica – Charlotte Livingstone brings a genre busting mixtape of nuggets from across the musical firmament.
Sounds like summer.

Charlotte lives in South London and as far as music tastes go, her view is the broader the better...  

13/05/2018

In his most recent mixes for Seeks Music Chris has given us his take on indie dance, explored deep and dreamy house music and shown us that vocals can be cool in dance music. This month, there is no specific theme apart from bringing all these elements together with the indie tinged and all round wonkiness of Rebolledo and Superpitcher (who also also perform together as the even stranger Pachanga Boys), the beautifully dreamy opener from Taloboman (John Talabot and Axel Boman) and plenty of wonderful vocals throughout from the likes of Qtier, Julienne Dessagne (half of Saschienne and otherwise known as the Fantastic Twins) and David Harks.
http://seeksmusic.com/show/seeks-beats/ #/listen/seeks-beats-chris-bassett-may-2018

Guest DJs drop mixes. email us and we'll tell you how you can submit your show.

24/03/2018

We dropped a delicious new show full of psyche delights yesterday. Fill yr boots. Fill em up.
May contain Thee Oh Sees , King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard , Kurt Vile .

A golden era for modern psychedelic music is upon us. I worshiped at the temples of both Thee Oh Sees and King Gizzard within a few weeks of each other and acknowledged how lucky we are. So much good music and so many drummers! So strap on your prism glasses and settle in then for this 30th edition....

12/03/2018

Seeks Music's very own Space Cadet has just gifted us a sublimely trippy, eclectic, chilled mix crafted in the snowy wastes of East Anglia.

Listen to Ade March 2018 by Ade_Seeks

16/01/2018

Did you know, you can listen to Seeks from the very beginning; oldest show first, over at Mixcloud.
The archive goes back 5 years. Binge!

https://www.mixcloud.com/seeksmusic/uploads/?order=oldest

Seeks Music is on Mixcloud. Listen for free to their radio shows, DJ mix sets and Podcasts

13/12/2017

700 listens for Chris Bassett’s house-tunes-that-aren’t-ruined-by-vocals mix
Listen now :

Considering your average underground dance music aficionado is more likely to stick forks in their ears than subject them to ‘vocal house music’, this might seem a strange theme for Chris Bassett to pursue. He assures us however, this isn’t a mix of wall to wall funky vocal house ‘bangers’...

01/12/2017

Considering your average underground dance music aficionado is more likely to stick forks in their ears than subject them to ‘vocal house music’, this might seem a strange theme for Chris Bassett to pursue.
He assures us however, this isn’t a mix of wall to wall funky vocal house ‘bangers’, but instead he feels the vocal elements in each of his selections add a certain ‘je ne sais quoi’ to transform a track into something altogether more interesting and alluring to the ears.
Stick your headphones on and take in these ‘voices’ from the hypnotic to the dark and moody to the uplifting to the downright strange, with tracks from Howling, Stimming, Hyenah and Tim Green.

Guest DJs drop mixes. email us and we'll tell you how you can submit your show.

08/10/2017

THE ANTISWARM HAS RETURNED UNTO YOU<
BEHOLD THE SOUND OF PSYCHE IN ALL IT'S MANIFOLD ENTITIES.

The Antiswarm: Like an explosion of lime and mint in your ear. Like sleeping on a cloud. Like getting lost in a world that doesn’t exist. Feat. Oh Sees, UNKLE, Shanti Celeste, DJ Shadow

01/10/2017

Wonderful news.
If like us you're still coming to terms with seeing Nick Cave's electrifying performance at London's O2 arena last night, you might find this new show from Third Light Home hitting the spot.
Minimal, eclectic, soothing. Home made radio for the soul.
Click to listen.
http://seeksmusic.com/show/third-light-home/ #/listen/third-light-home-october-2017

24/04/2017

There’s no earthly way of knowing
Which direction they are going!
There’s no knowing where they’re rowing,
Or which way they river’s flowing!
Not a speck of light is showing,
So the danger must be growing,
For the rowers keep on rowing,
And they’re certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing…

There’s no earthly way of knowing Which direction they are going! There’s no knowing where they’re rowing, Or which way they river’s flowing! Not a speck of light is showing, So the danger must be growing, For the rowers keep on rowing, And they’re certainly not showing Any signs that they are slowi...

28/03/2017

Sneaking this out a couple of days early for you. Chris Bassett returns with a Woomoon inspired mix capturing the chilled sound of Ibiza.

Chris’s inspiration for this mix came from him chancing upon a video stream of the Woomoon closing party in Ibiza last year - an amazing spectacle with all kinds of weird and wonderful performance art mixed in with a deeper, dreamier, more traditionally Balearic musical sound than the typical tech h...

28/12/2016

Yo Ho Ho!
The Antiswarm have graced us with a show to bring this wretched year to a proper close. All things spacey and psyche await those who dare.
As a bonus, he's also dropped an end of year top 10 round up in the blog dept. Catch it here http://seeksmusic.com/2016/12/antiswarms-top-10s-of-2016/

So at the end of a truly sh*tty turn around the sun we are all still blessed with beautiful, hopeful, inspiring music, and here is some. 12 months of amazing, trippy tracks fused into a blistering kernel as the Antiswarm propels you into 2017. Keep on truckin’ space cadets!

10/12/2016

We just dropped a new show from Third Light Home's Ian Preece.

Re-think Radio Listen to the world's most trusted DJs, radio hosts and Podcasters

28/10/2016

At Antiswarm Towers Halloween is a no-brainer. Easily the best holiday – vampires, dry ice, werewolves, and of course spooky tunes. Here is a mix curated from years of nursing my Halloween playlist towards perfection. A whirlwind tour of evil Bar Mitzvahs, ritual killings and of course a few basements! Enjoy

The Antiswarm: an hour of cantankerous bliss with it's steely eye set squarely on the future of psychedelic music. Here you'll rub shoulders with electric werewolves, effects drenched hippies and acid house casualties all washed up on it's soft velvety shores. It's Desert Island Discs if Hunter S. T...

14/08/2016

Third Light Home gives us a little lesson in what the hell europe has ever done for us.

n response to the EU referendum, Third Light Home relocates to mainland Europe and takes in soothing recordings of the sea off the Iberian peninsula, free jazz from 1960s Paris, melancholy strings from Berlin, muted trumpet from Stockholm and Paris, and Asturian bagpipe tunes from 1930. Read the ful...

04/08/2016

This show marks a bit of a departure from Chris’ usual deep/tech house style with a mix that has a fairly distinct ‘indie’ sound…

Chris’ mix this month is his take on the current ‘indie dance’ sound as he sees it – as it’s mixed, it’s more ‘dance’ than ‘indie’, but you will hear a definite indie slant with contributions from Red Axes, FK Club, Vox Low and Lauer. Enjoy something a bit different… and if you do share it with others

It’s been a while and this show marks a bit of a departure from Chris’ usual deep/tech house style with a mix that has a fairly distinct ‘indie’ sound… Chris’ mix this month is his take on the current ‘indie dance’ sound as he sees it – as it’s mixed, it’s more ‘dance’ than ‘indie’, but you will hea...

15/07/2016

All new Antiswarm for you right here

“I just uploaded "The Antiswarm, July 2016" to . Listen at https://t.co/mNcsjtJQ6m”

04/03/2016

Friday Treat : New Antiswarm. Smother it in all your nooks and crannies.

Set your controls for the heart of the sun and oil up your Ouija board as the Antiswarm attempts to contact the dead via glacial slabs of space rock and dreamlike electronica. Featuring music from Blanck Mass, Nicholas Godin,…

24/02/2016

Chris Dale just dropped this on us. 'It has been an awfully long time since Low End Theory has reared it's head, but I am really pleased to have got myself together and fixed up some of my favourite music right now. A slight little diversion from the usual servings of non-stop bass and beats, I've t…

12/02/2016

Incoming>>>> new eclectic radio from Third Light Home Feat. David Bowie , Ian Pooley, Vic Mars, Willie Dunn and more.

Krautrock grooves, pastoral soundscapes, plaintive dub moments and understated folksiness: Third Light Home attempts to shrug off a long, grey winter – featuring Neu!, Josephine Foster, Cavern of Anti-Matter and Dean & Britta.
 Read the full sleeve notes here
http://seeksmusic.com/2016/02/third-ligh…

31/12/2015

Just in time, Antiswarm has dropped a NYE mix for all you party starters. Top of the shop over at
http://seeksmusic.com

You should know by now, that the alchemists behind End Of The Road, have lovingly crafted a brand new festival; No Direction Home, to take place in the delightful surroundings of the Sherwood Forest, 8th-10th June. Excitingly, we have a pair of tickets to give away. There will be music, there will b…

24/12/2015

’tis the season to be jolly and all that malarkey and in this December show Chris takes the time to reflect back on a year which has been eventful as far as dance music bucket list items are concerned with Ibiza, Berlin and a Dixon/Ame Innervisions extravaganza at Fabric all ticked off in the last year.
You’ll find some of his usual deep tech house vibes which you’re likely to hear after hours in the clubs of Berlin from the likes of Axel Boman and SCSI-9, working up through some housier Ibiza fares from the likes of Andhim and also one of the tunes of the year from Frankey and Sandrino on the Innervisions label and rounding off with the kind of curveball that Dixon might include in one of his sets to such good effect (one of the reasons why he’s been voted resident advisor dj of the year for a third year running)…

Guest DJs drop mixes. email us and we'll tell you how you can submit your show.

02/11/2015

FuzzBox Phil ponders; Can listening to novelty country pastiches improve your iQ? How may chords separate the Quo from Kraut Rock? Can a caravan holidaying in Cleethorpes endanger Rock Royalty? Can a Dj change your life? Nods of respect to those who have served in prog to punk, Plus the usual fluffs, stammers and mispronunciations.

As a teenage boy his cut down denim had patches of Motorhead, Kiss, Saxon, Iron Maiden and AC/DC. His taste hasn't improved a lot since then. More recently however, Phil kept himself busy, putting on live music 7 nights a week for 15 odd years as the resident promoter of the legendary Bull and Gate,…

23/10/2015

Third Light Home rakes up a few 1990s gems (the distressed cd sounds of Oval; Songs from Su***de Bridge; the heyday of drum & bass), keeps it real with the sounds of today (from Blank Realm and Helen to Nap Eyes and Tint), once again re-visits the Treasure Isle (circa 1968‒74) and enjoys mushy peas and mint sauce, fairground organs and pumping techno at Nottingham’s Goose Fair.

Third Light Home (aka Ian Preece) was part of the Wireless ‘massive’ of djs in the nineties, proud custodians of a club night Upstairs at the Garage in London. Tired of being hassled to play either too much house music, or Queen, and having once been accused of playing something ‘funded by the f**ki…

17/10/2015

Better late than never but never late is better. Festival season is well out the way so we're back in order. Young Thug keeps us guessing with his incomprehensible lyrics while Drake & Future turn the hip hop world upside down, for now. Trapping stories aside Murlo, Klyne and Sango keep things merry and eclectic. Oh and the mixing still needs practice and lots of it

For Jamie, music comes first - followed by a (some might say unhealthy) love for trainers and then not far behind is a strong interest in running. Fortunately, these things all go hand in hand quite well. With experience in music synchronisation and supervision, he’s been exposed to everything and a…